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From: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
To: Curtis Gedak <gedakc@gmail.com>, Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>, util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Severe fdisk problem leading to data loss?
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 15:08:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5296515A.1070505@ubuntu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52964ED3.8030504@gmail.com>

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On 11/27/2013 2:58 PM, Curtis Gedak wrote:
> Unfortunately at least one company produces devices that have
> partitions with ID set to 0, yet these same partitions contain
> data.
> 
> An Apple iPod Shuffle is such an example as shown in the following
> fdisk output:

Wow, what is in there?  And more hilariously, what happens when you
plug the thing into a Windows machine and try to create a partition in
the "free space"?

Also, I thought iPods don't use the USB MASS STORAGE protocol so they
don't show up as a block device at all; you have to use iTunes to
access them.


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  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-27 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20131118102051.GA31813@merlins.org>
2013-11-24 13:52 ` Severe fdisk problem leading to data loss? Marc MERLIN
2013-11-25 10:31   ` Karel Zak
2013-11-25 11:59     ` Marc MERLIN
2013-11-27 14:46     ` Phillip Susi
2013-11-27 14:58       ` Karel Zak
2013-11-27 18:25         ` Phillip Susi
2013-11-27 19:58           ` Curtis Gedak
2013-11-27 20:08             ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2013-11-27 20:23               ` Curtis Gedak
2013-11-27 21:05                 ` Phillip Susi
2013-11-27 21:07                   ` Curtis Gedak
2013-11-27 23:02                   ` Ángel González
2013-11-27 20:07           ` Karel Zak
2013-11-27 20:19             ` Phillip Susi
2013-11-27 21:09               ` Karel Zak

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